Lois Lowry's 'The Giver'

“Everything a writer experiences as a young person goes into the later writing in some form” (Albert 9). Lois Lowry is a Newbery medal children 's author. She has written numerous novels, but the one that stood out the most would be The Giver. As Lowry began to write The Giver she took her emotions, memories and personal stories to write about this book. She makes the setting of the story in the future where all the people have no memory and no free will. Also, every time something fearful happens in her life, she never lets it get in the way. Instead, fear makes her a stronger person and forces her to get the job done. Lois Lowry has been collecting her memories and life events from the past and uses them to create her stories for The Giver.

One way the setting of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry creates conflict for the community is the rule that only the receiver is allowed to hold memories from the past. The giver tells Jonas that he gets asked for advice very rarely by the chief elder and if he had more of a say in most of the decisions for the community, he could use his knowledge to bring changes. The giver explains why the memories must be held onto, “ ‘Why do you and I have to hold these memories?’ ‘It gives us wisdom.’ the giver replied”( pg 139-140). This shows that wisdom is only possessed by Jonas and the giver because only they share memories. The lack of wisdom in the other citizens causes them to make decisions that may not be beneficial.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

In Lois Lowry’s book, the Giver, people live in a futuristic, colorless, emotionless, and uniform society. Those who live in the society, also called the community, is controlled intensely by countless rules with no memory of the past, which was more dangerous, yet exciting, than their current life. A common value that is held is to be precise with words. “Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was three. “For a while,” the Chief Elder said, relating the story, “we had a silent Asher! But he learned.” She turned to him with a smile. “When he began to talk again, it was with greater precision.” (p.55) When Asher, as a toddler, pronounced snack as smack, he was beaten by a Childcare worker without mercy. It

For me this created better story and helped to get the point across more clearly than the book. Jonas, Asher, and Fiona were 12 years old in the book, but in the movie they appeared to be much older. Even Jonas’s little sister Lily received her bicycle in the movie, but in the book she had to wait another year until she was older. I enjoyed the books use of age because it made getting a job seem horrible well you are so young.

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

First, in the book it says that Jonas is 12, but in the movie he is 18. Also, in the movie he looks, and acts 18. In the movie Jonas didn’t really seem to have pale eyes like described

As soon as Jonas figures out the impending release he devises a plan to save the new child, this was a vital part of the overall story. Furthermore, another similarity is the last line in the novel and film: the line states " But perhaps it was only an echo. " This line gives the audience a sense of curiosity about what lies beyond the

The Marxist criticism is based on the socialist theories of Karl Marx and how the readers must closely examine the dynamics of class as they attempt to understand the works they read. In a world where there is no pain, no prejudice, no emotion, and no detestation. Lois Lowry gives a vivid description of a community where everything is equal, everyone is just as important as another, and life choices are made by only one individual. In the book The giver by Lois Lowry, it expresses the exact opposite of Marx’s most important ideas which is a prime example of what people will do if they were forced to live a certain way.

I believed Lois Lowry wrote the book, The giver for a reason, and that reason is. The reason why Lois Lowry wrote the book, The Giver for a reason and those reasons are. One so people understand how lucky we are to have freedom, because where Jonas’s, is he doesn't have freedom, and he does ever get to make his own decisions. Also, she wants people to know what pain feels like, and other feelings of sadness, kindness, and all of the other feeling.

The Giver by Lois Lowry illustrates how the enforcement of a totalitarian government system inhibits those it seeks to govern as well as demonstrates the difference between the philosophically based political concepts of the realist and idealist point of view. As the American writer, Charlie Reese once stated, "We... are not really free if we can 't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant". One can interpret from this statement that a government that holds complete power over society and offers only limited information to the governed is unjust.

Lois Lowry has been one of the most influential authors who has ever lived. She has written so many novels that every time we read one of her novels we have a desire on reading more and more on what’s going to happen next. Lois Lowry has been very successful on publishing her novels. Well, what I learned about while I was watching this video was when she wrote “The Giver” I believe the reason she wrote that book was because of her son. When Lois was talking about how she gets influences on writing such marvelous books like “The Giver” or as well like “Gathering Blue” was that she get’s influenced on what she see’s all over the world. Like for instances, Lois Lowry explains “That in order to be greatly influenced on something you must be thinking to yourself what you’re always wondering about”.

Would you like to live in a society where anger, greed, hate and pain are eliminated? A society where differences are nonexistent and the feelings of envy and jealousy are extinct? It sounds wonderful, but what does this society cost its citizens? Lois Lowry wrote The Giver, and when it adapted into the film, it is directed by Phillip Noyce. The film takes place in a society that has eliminated the differences within people. They have little emotion, cannot see colors, and have no memory of all the past events like war, pain, animals, and emotions. They are all assigned jobs at a young age and Jonas is assigned as the receiver of memory. He keeps all the memories of the past to provide wisdom for the future. Once the current receiver of memory (the giver) gives him all of these memories and emotions he realizes that keeping all of these things from the community is wrong. He sees his father releasing (killing) babies and his father did not realize he was killing them. Jonas’ family was caring for a child that was not mature enough to be in the nurturing center and is eventually scheduled to be released. Jonas took the baby out of the community, crossed the boundary and restores all the emotions and memories to the entire population. Is a perfect, predictable, systematic society worth sacrificing personal choice and emotional individuality? No, emotions and personal choices give our lives purpose, drives us to become more; these things make us human.

This upcoming fall production will be based on the book that won the Newbery prize. It’s titled “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry.

The elders/community thought they could make the community a perfect place, but everything is not perfect in some way.They think sameness is perfect, keeping everyone equal, like same clothes same houses same birthdays and same types of families called family units. Imagine a world like that!.At the end of the year everyone has a birthday the community has a ceremony for all of the citizens like parents get children and the little ones age up like sixes to sevens and twelves get a job that the elders/community choose there is a rare job that one person gets every ten years is called a receiver and Jonas was chosen to be a receiver.The receiver's job receives the memories of pain and joyful from the old world because so he can use the memories to make changes to the community.The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas changes from being ignorant, to knowledgeable and also from being boring to discovering the full range of emotion.